Beowulf

how does the translator's use of alliteration make this description of the underwater lair of grendels mother more effective?

Grendel's mother

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"They live in secret places, windy

Cliffs, wolf-dens where water pours

From the rocks, then runs underground, where mist Steams like black clouds, and the groves of trees Growing C>U!. over their lake are all covered

With frozen spray, and wind down snakelike

Roots that reach as far as the water

And help keep it dark.

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